Billy Bloom, the protagonist of Freak Show, is not your ordinary high school skell. The 16 year-old twinkle queen is obsessed with being fabulous, a hobby that doesn’t go over well at his super-rich, ultra-conservative private southern high school. Each day is a new hell for Billy: tater tots in his hair, noogies and donkey ...
How many of you out there have read a Young Adult book? Hopefully many, but for those of you who haven’t, I hope I can get you started in a new direction. Young Adult literature are books that are aimed at the ages of 12-18. These books run the gamut of genres and can be ...
There are so many options of wonderful fiction books out there to open up and get lost in. To sit down and delve into a controversial social topic, to explore a faraway tumultuous land, to meet a wacky neighbor, or even to be on a simple road trip that evolves into much more. I believe ...
My Life as an Experiment, an upcoming half-hour sitcom by NBC produced by Jack Black, is based on journalist A.J. Jacobs’s book, Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment. The nonfiction book, and the TV show, is about the author’s experiences as an immersion journalist and the effects on his family. Jacobs, better known ...
Summary The Maze Runner is a young adult book about a boy named Thomas who wakes up in a place known as “The Glade” with no memories. He, along with other Gladers, work toward finding an exit out of The Glade by searching through a maze and battling past mechanical monsters they call “Grievers.” Review ...
For young adult book fans, now has never been a better time for diversity in the market. Gone are the days when young readers, especially females, had only books about menstruation, puberty, and crushes to choose from. Now, almost every subject, from abortion to murder, societal changes to school shootings has been thrust into the ...
Our children are bombarded daily by a world that sometimes seems intent on destroying the moral fabric of our family and our culture. At times, we have a natural instinct to want to pull back and protect them from the themes and ideas that threaten our belief systems. We try to “preach” to them our ...